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Naz Reid making a case for NBA 6th Man of the Year
More than 90 minutes before the opening tip, Target Center is at once empty and intimate enough to hear the echoes from the dribbles and to calibrate the nuanced accuracy of deadeye shooting based on...
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Like the Timberwolves mascot, its ‘crunch time’
In pro basketball, the fourth quarter is known as “winning time.” With each team having logged more than 60 of the 82 games in their 2023-24 NBA season, we are now in that final stanza. It is a point...
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How will the Timberwolves fare in a time of peak adversity?
Nobody connected to the Minnesota Timberwolves was asking for adversity. I mean, Sisyphus is no myth to this woe begotten franchise. Any boulders a Wolves team has arduously managed to shoulder up the...
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How Big Ten coaches, attendance figures could help decide if Minneapolis...
Two weeks of Big Ten Conference men’s and women’s basketball tournaments wrapped up last Sunday at the Target Center, with Illinois outpacing Wisconsin 93-87 for the men’s championship. Red-clad...
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Jaden McDaniels raised the bar on expectations last season. Can he meet the...
The signature shot for Minnesota Timberwolves forward Jaden McDaniels during this 2023-24 NBA season thus far has been what we’ll call his rocking-chair floater. It’s a dribble-penetration maneuver,...
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With KAT likely out, who’s the toughest Timberwolves playoff matchup?
It’s been a long while since we’ve had a Timberwolves mailbag here at MinnPost. And as we lean into the last 10 games of what has indisputably been one of the two greatest seasons in the 35-year...
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Forgot about the Twins opener due to women’s college basketball? You’re not...
Disclosure: Until Wednesday, I hadn’t watched a single pitch of the new Major League Baseball season. In more than 30 years covering MLB in Boston, New York and the Twin Cities, I can’t remember...
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Can the Wolves make a deep playoff run?
The Minnesota Timberwolves were looking for a feather, or perhaps a cherry, some piquant adornment to set atop their marvelous 2023-24 NBA season. A win over the reigning champion Denver Nuggets and...
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Recapping the Wolves memorable regular season
One of the odd quirks of sports fandom is how much the suffering eclipses the savoring. Countless hours are spent on the precipice of dread, the memory’s overstuffed file cabinet of past...
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Don’t count out the Timberwolves before the playoffs even start
The Minnesota Timberwolves finished the 2023-24 season with the fourth-best record in the NBA, just a game behind the top two teams in a brutally competitive Western Conference. It earned them the...
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Playoff 3-Pointer: Wolves look to take 2-0 lead after convincing Game 1 win...
As the Wolves work their way through the 2023-24 playoffs, we’ll be supplementing (or replacing, when the basketball schedule collides with the weekend) my regular weekly column with shorter pieces....
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The U’s men’s gymnastics team is thriving … just without the U
Parking was tight around Humboldt High School, on St. Paul’s West Side, on a Saturday night in mid-February. Latecomers bypassed the packed school lot and hunted for street parking in the...
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Defense wins championships … or at least the first two games of the NBA...
The eclipse of the Suns is halfway through its progression. It takes four losses to eliminate a team from the NBA playoffs and the Minnesota Timberwolves have now administered two defeats in as many...
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Howling at the Sun: The Minnesota Timberwolves pull off impressive and...
In the world of sport, a “signature play” is a three-dimensional calling card, something an individual or team performs that is at once familiar and distinctive, a vivid epitome of personality. With...
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Great chemistry leads to great expectations for the Minnesota Timberwolves in...
The great, late Minnesota Timberwolves coach Flip Saunders once defined team chemistry to me as players on the roster knowing and accepting their proper place in the pecking order when it came to...
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Playoff win against the Denver Nuggets was more than Anthony Edwards for the...
Anthony Edwards was the headline of the second round of the NBA playoffs versus the Denver Nuggets and he ought to be. He was the fist that punched the Denver Nuggets in the mouth in the first quarter...
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Video: Breaking down the historic Minnesota Timberwolves run ahead of Game 3...
The Minnesota Timberwolves are 2-0 in the second round of the NBA playoffs after winning on the road in shocking fashion against the defending champion Denver Nuggets. Ahead of tonight’s Game 3 at the...
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How the tide has turned: The Minnesota Timberwolves drop weekend home games...
The series is tied. But it doesn’t feel even. The Denver Nuggets gave the Minnesota Timberwolves a lesson in championship pedigree over the weekend, thrashing the Wolves twice on their home court,...
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‘Match-up nightmare’ Alissa Pili expected to make an immediate impact for the...
The town of Barrow, Alaska, where Lynx rookie power forward Alissa Pili spent the first seven or so years of her life, is definitely not for the weak-willed. The northernmost municipality in the...
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One loss away from the season’s end, the Minnesota Timberwolves must solve...
For more than 90 games that have stretched from opening night in October through the second round of the NBA playoffs here in mid-May, the 2023-24 Minnesota Timberwolves have relied and thrived with...
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